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ATLANTA, GA (TPP) -- About 200 fans and well-wishers stood outside the police station in downtown Atlanta to show their support for Falcons quarterback Michael Vick Tuesday morning. The troubled quarterback who is already facing a federal indictment for financing and participating in dog fighting was arrested Monday following a high-speed chase and an altercation with police.
In the latest incident, Vick was caught in a prostitution sting setup by St. Louis police. At 4:00 AM, Vick drove to the intersection of Branch Ave. and Florissant near Hyde Park. After reportedly offering Lt. Mary Ann Miller, who was posing as a hooker, five dollars to perform a deviant sex act involving both her rectum and her mouth, she attempted to place Vick under arrest. Vick resisted, punching her once in each breast and then beating her unconscious with his shoe. That's when Vick reportedly dropped his pants and urinated about her face and neck. When other officers who were monitoring the sting from an unmarked van nearby tried to intervene, Vick, who still had his pants down and was holding his penis in one hand, removed his belt and repeatedly struck them with it while screaming, "Who wants to taste my piss next?" Then he pulled out a gun and shot Det. Ron White in the chest.
All of this was caught by police video cameras setup for the sting.
Later, it was discovered that inside Vick's 2008 Mercedes was several pounds of cocaine along with a shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missile in a secret compartment in the dashboard. In the trunk, six diamond crusted, platinum plated dog skulls were found strung to a thick platinum rope chain.
This mountain of evidence still wasn't enough to convince Monique Brown, 28, "I saw Mike Vick run for a 99-yard touchdown one time, and I heard he gave some toys to poor kids at Christmas time. I just don't think he could have done this. People are either good or bad, not both."
Wendell Vaughn, 29, thinks that racism plays a large part in Vick's troubles. "You don't see Peyton Manning or Tom Brady getting arrested all the time. What's different about those guys? You're telling me neither of them ever shot at a cop? Yeah right. The difference is that they white. People see a black guy coming up, and they have to knock him down. It's all racism."
"White people been grindin' an ax, and that ax ain't sharp enough. They just gotta take down another successful black man," said Cedric Hardaway.
"A hundred-million-dollar black man makes white people nervous. I wouldn't be surprised if some white guy dressed up a Vick and shot that cop. Has anyone thought of that?" asked Cindy Williams, a Carolina Panthers fan who made the drive up to support Vick in her Rae Carruth jersey.
NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference issued a statement asking the public to withhold judgment until all the facts come out.
"This double standard they have with Michael Vick stinks of racism. The media and NFL look the other way all the time, but when a black quarterback shoots a cop in the chest on video, they freak out," said NAACP president R.L. White in an interview via telephone.
could burn down an aids orphanage and his people would still support him. these are the same people who believe a 60 thousand dollar car parked in front of their 55 thousand dollar house is a good idea.
"a Carolina Panthers fan who made the drive up to support Vick in her Rae Carruth jersey."----Panthers fans will never support Vick, we have our own outlaws.
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Posted: 8/14/2007 8:54:24 AM
Is that black people are generally paranoid. (Especially older ones.) Most half-assed conspiracy theories are accepted in the black community. Many people are still convinced Bush stole the election, ran the plane into the towers, and ruined the box office take of Michael Moore's latest movie.
And for the last time, the joy in the OJ case wasn't because of OJ. No one gives a fuck about OJ and his white women in the black community. We were happy because for once a black guy beat the system the way white guys always seemed to get off.
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Posted: 8/14/2007 9:12:03 AM
I didn't say it was about OJ. I just said these are probably the same type of people. I understand that if it had been Tony Dorsett instead of OJ the reaction would have been similar.
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Posted: 8/14/2007 9:15:07 AM
On the OJ case, everyone I know celebrated. I celebrated. Sure, now we play it off and pretend it was just ignorant folks that did it, but I was jumping up and down like the floor was hot. You just deny it later.
Its like New Kids on the Block. No one will admit to listening to them, but SOMEBODY was buying the albums and we all seem to know all of their songs-
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